sorry for the double post. i was reading the documentation and found my problem was path related. the problem was php was unable to find the php_pdo.dll inside the extensions directory. i just copied it under the php installation directory and now "php-cgi -m" lists PDO_Firebird under the PHP Modules. i also noticed a new error message indicating php_pdo.dll should be loaded before any calls to PDO related modules, so i enabled it in the php.ini extensions section. but now i found another problem: my test page returns: Call to undefined function ibase_connect() my teste page is <?php $host = "127.0.0.1:/data/mydb.fdb"; $username = "sysdba"; $password = "pwd"; $connection = ibase_connect($host, $username, $password, 'ISO8859_1', '100', '1'); $sql = "select MyField from MyTable"; $rid = @ibase_query($connection, $sql) or die(ibase_errmsg()); while ($row = ibase_fetch_row($rid)) { echo $row[0] . "<br>"; } ibase_close($connection); ?> any hints on this ? "Luciano Eicke" <leicke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:20041024221941.80092.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > hi, > > i'm having a hard time trying to get the firebird extension working with > PHP. > > php is installed and running as CGI under Apache, but when i add the > extension=php_pdo_firebird.dll to my php.ini i can't get php to start. > > it aborts with "unable to load dynamic library ./php_pdo_firebird.dll one of > the files needed to run this application cannot be found" . > > i used DEPENDS to check the required files and all of them are visible to > the system: > PHP5TS.DLL (php install dir), GDS32.DLL (windows/system), PHP_PDO > (php/extensions) and MSVCRT (windows/system). > > i also tried to load the php_zip.dll extension and it worked, so the problem > is the firebird extension. > > any hints ? > > regards, > > luciano eicke -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php